Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions

✍ Scribed by Carlos Romero and Tahir Rehman (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Developments in Agricultural Economics 11
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the underlying structure of the MCDM paradigm. The second part is the largest part consisting of five chapters, each of which presents the logic of a specific MCDM technique, and demonstrates how it can be used to model a particular decision problem. In the final part, some selected applications of the MCDM techniques to agricultural problems are presented and thus reinforce the development of an understanding of the MCDM paradigm. The book has been designed for use at different levels: as a textbook for final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses in modelling for decision-making; as a manual for researchers and practising modellers; and, as general reference on the application of MCDM techniques. Readers with basic appreciation of algebra and linear programming can easily follow the contents of this book. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface
Pages xi-xii

Acknowledgements
Pages xiii-xiv
Carlos Romero, Tahir Rehman

Chapter one Main features of the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm Original Research Article
Pages 3-14

Chapter two Some basic concepts Original Research Article
Pages 15-20

Chapter three Goal programming Original Research Article
Pages 23-46

Chapter four Multiobjective programming Original Research Article
Pages 47-61

Chapter five Compromise programming Original Research Article
Pages 63-78

Chapter six The interactive multiple criteria decision-making approach Original Research Article
Pages 79-102

Chapter seven Risk and uncertainty and the multiple criteria decision-making techniques Original Research Article
Pages 103-119

Chapter eight A compromise programming model for the agrarian reform programme in Andalusia, Spain Original Research Article
Pages 123-134

Chapter nine Livestock ration formulation and multiple criteria decision-making techniques Original Research Article
Pages 135-147

Chapter ten Livestock ration formulation via goal programming with penalty functions Original Research Article
Pages 149-161

Chapter eleven optimum fertiliser use via goal programming with penalty functions Original Research Article
Pages 163-168

References
Pages 169-184

Index
Pages 185-186